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The San Francisco Giants are going to have 9,200 fans in the stands for their home opener against the Colorado Rockies on April 9, but everyone has to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test.
Unfortunately, now that we are just over two weeks away from the entire state of California (over the age of 16) trying to get a COVID vaccine appointment, the various systems through which one is expected to get an appointment all remain buggy, flawed, and ill prepared for the onslaught.
It must have been Gavin Rossdale's weekend with the kids, and Gwen Stefani and her new fiancé Blake Shelton were up in Monterey over the weekend where they went out fishing and crabbing with a local guide.
In a matchup between the #10 seeds in the Eastern and Western Conference Monday night at the Chase Center, Stephen Curry returned from a five-game absence and recorded a game-high 32 points to propel the Golden State Warriors to a much-needed 116-102 win over the Chicago Bulls.
There was a shooting at 24th and Mission in SF last night that left one person dead, a 19-year-old has turned himself in for a Muni assault in October, and Oakland is welcoming back its littlest students today in Pre-K to second grade.
Vaccine FOMO is real, local counties are preparing for a major influx of vaccine shipments and a huge crush of demand, and new Noe Valley restaurant/bar Mr. Digby's is about to make its debut.
San Francisco is now No. 6 in an annual study where we'd perennially ranked No. 1, as we fall from the top five in terms of how much office space the tech industry is leasing here.
The suspect remains at large in a hit-and-run homicide at a homeless encampment last week in Santa Rosa, which police have characterized as intentional.
Though robberies are down 28 percent compared to this time last year, the slow return of gatherings and semi-normalcy may bring back both petty and violent theft.
A Bay Area pharmaceutical company says it is working on a "second generation" COVID vaccine that could work as a booster against virus variants for the already vaccinated, and potentially prevent future coronavirus pandemics.
CBS News isn't doing any favors for San Francisco's national image with the piece that just went live on "60 Minutes+" on the Paramount+ app, which is ostensibly a profile of District Attorney Chesa Boudin.
The trends continue in a positive direction for the Bay Area's COVID-19 cases, but the picture is not good at the national level and the director of the CDC says we may be looking at a major fourth wave in the coming weeks.
On Sunday, an environmental art group led a workshop to create a large-scale sand art piece on Ocean Beach — and they'll be doing this again in April.
A high wind advisory has been issued for Monday night for the Bay Area hills, at least two people were injured during a sideshow in the Mission over the weekend, and that container ship has finally been unstuck in the Suez Canal.
Now that over 40% of San Franciscans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, some of the city's most popular parks were inundated with warm bodies Saturday — sparking mild concern from some local medical experts.
Humans aren't the only sentient beings on this planet that are at risk of contracting COVID-19; our closest living relatives, the world's great apes, are especially prone to catching the novel disease from us.
Rallies across the Bay Area were held Saturday to denounce hate against Asian Americans, local medical experts warn we still have a long way to go before we see an end to the pandemic, and despite falling house prices — nearly a million dollars will still only get you so far in SF.
Having now seen two pandemics, the four-unit Pallesen apartment building at 14 East Reed Street in San Jose is expected to be relocated to its new address tomorrow — less than a quarter-mile from its current one.
* Police are still searching for a possible robbery suspect that managed to evade police through Oakland city streets Friday evening. The driver of the car could be seen weaving in and out of
Bay Area parents of Asian American children fear sending their kids back to school, children’s book author Beverly Cleary has died at 104 years old, and construction workers digging at a Vallejo bridge discovered two people that had been living inside a 20-foot-long human-made cave.
In yet another case of a recall campaign being largely financially dependent on an individual tycoon, a third of the money going to the Chesa Boudin ouster attempt is financed by “PayPal Mafia” investor David Sacks.
Facebook is priming to open its Bay Area offices starting May 10, but the social media giant will not offer employees free food or transit. Thankfully, it looks like we won’t have to contend with its tech buses busying our streets and bike lanes for the immediate future.
One startup organization set about solving two problems at once last March, mobilizing to put restaurants to work doing what they do best, and delivering meals to people who in many cases were newly food-insecure because of the pandemic.
Santa Clara County health officials confirmed on Thursday that the first case of the "P.1" variant, first identified in Brazil, has been found in the Bay Area.
The latest episode of ‘Sesame Street’ has a very special guest appearance from Steph Curry, but Ayesha Curry and Cookie Monster steal the show.
